{"id":5257,"date":"2014-08-28T16:19:37","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T21:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=5257"},"modified":"2014-08-28T16:19:37","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T21:19:37","slug":"no-internet-for-50-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/08\/no-internet-for-50-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"No Internet for 50 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, for reasons as yet unexplained, I haven&#8217;t had Internet service for two days. (Yesterday&#8217;s blog post was a timed one. My connection cut out in mid-draft of tomorrow&#8217;s post.) Kids, this is why us oldthinkers DO NOT TRUST THE CLOUD.<\/p>\n<p>It takes a special kind of stupid (or expectation that everyone has a &#8220;mobile device&#8221; with fast connection that is <em>not<\/em> dependent on the provider involved) to tell people to<em> visit a website during a service interruption<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I was actually somewhat <em>productive<\/em> during that time, but <em>only<\/em> because I worked with images and videos stored on my hard drive. Tim Cook, please keep that in mind as <a href=\"http:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2014\/06\/27\/apple-to-replace-aperture-and-iphoto-with-photos-for-os-x-early-next-year\/\">Apple plans to jettison iPhoto<\/a>. The Cloud may be five-nines-of-uptime hunky-dory in Silicon Valley, but here in the Great Flyover, not so much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, for reasons as yet unexplained, I haven&#8217;t had Internet service for two days. (Yesterday&#8217;s blog post was a timed one. My connection cut out in mid-draft of tomorrow&#8217;s post.) Kids, this is why us oldthinkers DO NOT TRUST THE &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/08\/no-internet-for-50-hours\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5258,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5257\/revisions\/5258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}